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source: apolloxias's channel 2010年7月13日
This is the first in a series of three lectures in which French philosopher Michel Foucault examines Western culture's conceptual development of individual subjectivity. He gave these lectures, in English, at UC Berkeley, beginning on April 12, 1983, roughly a year before he died. There are some negligible distortions in the tape.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fou...
2016-03-31
What would happen if you didn’t drink water? - Mia Nacamulli
source: TED-Ed 2016年3月29日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-would-...
Water is essentially everywhere in our world, and the average human is composed of between 55 and 60% water. So what role does water play in our bodies, and how much do we actually need to drink to stay healthy? Mia Nacamulli details the health benefits of hydration.
Lesson by Mia Nacamulli, animation by Chris Bishop.
Aron Dunlap: Living in the Age of Anxiety; Jacques Lacan in Dialogue with Paul Tillich and Hannah Arendt
source: Shimer College Chicago 2015年4月8日
Public Lecture by Dr. Aron Dunlap, Asst. Prof. of the Liberal Arts at Shimer College, delivered at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore
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In the years following WWII there seemed to be a general consensus among intellectuals in the West that if there was a pathological underbelly to any psychological health we might presume to own, it was anxiety. This was, they agreed, the Age of Anxiety, which was the title of a long poem by W.H. Auden that functioned as the inspiration for Leonard Bernstein’s 2nd symphony. The phrase made its way into common parlance and we see it forming the nucleus of concern in theologian Paul Tillich’s tremendously popular work, The Courage to Be. In this work, Tillich agreed with existentialists such as Sartre that, while fear has an object, the problem with anxiety was that it had none. For these thinkers, anxiety was part and parcel of human life, and one had to learn to take responsibility for a life that would never be free of the awe(ful) dread of living and the certainty of death. For Freud, the neurotic anxiety issuing from the castration complex was a kind of “bedrock” beyond which psychoanalysis could not venture. In his wake, Jacques Lacan re-interpreted this aspect of his master’s thought while also challenging the existentialists by claiming that anxiety, in fact, is “not without its object,” namely, objet a, the object cause of desire, which stands in the confluence of Lacan’s three registers of the Symbolic, Imaginary and Real, and which is an entirely dependable “signal” of the Real. While Hannah Arendt uses a radically different vocabulary, there is, in her political thought, something that, like objet a, falls away. In the American political experience what falls away is enjoyment in politics. What takes its places is the inevitable duality (right, left; conservative, liberal) that settles down in the place vacated by the object cause of desire.
For more of Dr. Dunlap on Jacques Lacan, be sure to check out his YouTube lecture "The Borromean Knot of Jaques Lacan; Or, How to Beat Your Death Drive."
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About Shimer College:
Located minutes from the Loop in Chicago, Shimer College is an independent, four-year liberal arts college that enrolls approximately 150 students. Founded in 1853 as the Mount Carroll Seminary, Shimer today provides a comprehensive, regularly-reviewed core curriculum that brings foundational books of the liberal arts to bear on the pressing problems of our time. Shimer College is committed to a primary-source, textbook-free curriculum, seminars of twelve or fewer students, and an ethos of community and service within a diverse group of students, teachers, scholars, and staff. Shimer offers traditional four-year degrees as well as early entrance and transfer pathways. To learn more about Shimer or to schedule a visit, check out our website at www.shimer.edu .
'The Death of the Author' Simplified (Roland Barthes)
source: Luke Perkins 2014年1月24日
A simplified explanation of the Ideas surrounding Roland Barthes' 'The Death of the Author'. The critical theory of authorship.
Hegel, Nietzsche, Vattimo and John Rawls: Religious Discussion in the Public Forum after the Death by H. Tristram Engelhardt
source: Notre Dame Center For Ethics and Culture - ( ndethics 2014年9月29日
A lecture by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.for the third annual fall conference, "From Death to Life: Agendas for Reform" on September 26-28, 2002.
Homi Bhabha: "On Global Memory: Thoughts on the Barbaric Transmission of...
source: UC Berkeley Events 2008年4月21日
Homi Bhabha presented his lecture as part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities' Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Considered one of the most important figures in postcolonial studies, Bhabha introduced the concepts of hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence to the field.
Sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/
Eric Weiner: "The Geography of Genius" | Talks at Google
source: Talks at Google 2016年1月22日
New York Times best-selling author Eric Weiner visited Google's Mountain View campus to discuss his new book, "The Geography of Genius."
In his previous New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss (2008), Eric Weiner searched for the happiest places in the world. Now, in "The Geography of Genius," he sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas.
Weiner writes: “The toddler steps of incremental innovation don’t earn you a patent, or the title of genius. Only a leap does. The question that intrigues someone such as myself, a creature of geography and a student of history, is not simply what these leaps look like but where, and when, they take place… certain places, at certain times, produced a bumper crop of brilliant minds and good ideas. The question is why.”
In an attempt to find the answer, Weiner travels the globe exploring the history of ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, Renaissance Florence, Enlightenment Edinburgh, Calcutta, Vienna of 1900, and today’s Silicon Valley, illustrating how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. With insightful humor, Weiner walks the same paths as the geniuses who flourished in these places, to see if the spirit of what inspired figures like Socrates, Michelangelo, and Mozart still remains.
Along the way, Weiner describes important research about genius and the contribution geography can make to creativity. He learns why geniuses thrive during times of tension and even chaos, how oysters (yes, oysters) played a pivotal role in the Scottish Enlightenment, how the Renaissance may never have happened if not for the plague, and why the genius of Silicon Valley has little to do with technology.
Provocative and entertaining, THE GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS is an informed romp through history that will start a national conversation about the importance of culture in nurturing creativity. Weiner shows we need to change the way we think about creative genius—not simply as a matter of genetics or even hard work but, rather, the fruits of a culture that encourages ingenuity. Genius, he argues, is not a private act but a public commitment. As he writes: “If it takes a village to raise a child… it takes a city to raise a genius.”
Eric Weiner is a philosophical traveler and recovering malcontent. His books include the New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss and Man Seeks God. A former foreign correspondent for NPR, his work has appeared in Slate, Quartz, Foreign Policy, the BBC, AFAR, The Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere. For some reason, he lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
Naren Shankar & Mark Fergus: “The Expanse” | Talks at Google
source: Talks at Google 2016年2月23日
Naren Shankar and Mark Fergus, showrunners for the new Syfy series “The Expanse” join Nick Farmer at Google (http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse).
Naren Shankar is a writer, producer and director of several television series, including CSI and Almost Human. Mark Fergus, is a screenwriter best known for his work with Hawk Ostby on Children of Men and Iron Man. Nick Farmer is creator of the Belter creole for The Expanse (http://www.nickfarmerlinguist.com/).
The Expanse Syfy TV series is based on the best selling novel series by James S.A. Corey (http://www.jamessacorey.com/).
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